CS1301 Database Management Systems Syllabus

AIM
To provide a strong foundation in database technology and an introduction to the current trends in this field.

OBJECTIVES
• To learn the fundamentals of data models and to conceptualize and depict a database system using ER diagram.
• To make a study of SQL and relational database design.
• To understand the internal storage structures using different file and indexing techniques which will help in physical DB design.
• To know the fundamental concepts of transaction processing- concurrency control techniques and recovery procedure.
• To have an introductory knowledge about the emerging trends in the area of distributed DB- OO DB- Data mining and Data Warehousing and XML.